Re: [docbook-apps] Break long programlisting lines without spaces?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

David Cramer wrote:

> I was thinking here at a higher level. As a stylesheet developer, I need
> some way to solve the problem of specifying that in verbatim
> environments, the lines be automatically broken (at a configurable set
> of characters) when they exceed the available space and a special
> character be added to indicate to the user that the line was broken for
> typographical reasons. The hyphenation approach does indeed feel like a
> hack. I think it would be better if I just told the fo renderer what I
> want (break-long-lines="yes" break-at="/*();. "
> break-character="⇦") and have it decide how to deal with the problem.

Something very similar is part of XSL-FO 2.0 requirements (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20-req/#N66916). But it will be long way
before it got implemented.

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